{"id":205838,"date":"2017-11-20T21:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T02:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/ronald-ronnie-butler-sr-m-b-e-passed-away-at-80-this-morning"},"modified":"2017-11-20T21:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T02:27:43","slug":"ronnie-butler-passes-away-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/11\/ronnie-butler-passes-away-at-80","title":{"rendered":"Ronald \u201cRonnie\u201d Butler, Sr. M.B.E Passes Away at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butler-628x800.jpeg\" alt=\"Ronald \u201cRonnie\u201d Butler, Sr. M.B.E passed away at 80 this morning\u2026\" width=\"628\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald \u201cRonnie\u201d Butler, Sr. August 17 1937 \u2013 November 19 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ronald \u201cRonnie\u201d Butler, Sr. M.B.E. died quietly this morning around 6am this Harvest Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A cultural icon whose musical kaleidoscope of musical fusion lit the stage of entertainment stage in the Bahamas and around the world for more than 60 years has passed.<\/p>\n<p>He became famous with his tunes of Bahamian calypso and rake n scrape artistry. His musical genius and swift talent took him across the country and around the world. He was known as \u201cThe Godfather of Bahamian Music\u201d and for many he became the cultural icon with a passionate love for his country. To Bahamas Press Ronnie was legendary.<\/p>\n<p>Among his popular hits are songs \u201cBurma Road\u201d, \u201cCrow Calypso\u201d and \u201cAge Ain\u2019t Nothin\u2019 But A Number\u201d. Butler has achieved much success and longevity in his career and most recently his single, \u201cMarried Man\u201d, was featured in Tyler Perry\u2019s, \u201cWhy Did I Get Married Too?\u201d, which was shot in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Butler died this morning [November 19 2017] from natural causes. He was 80 years old. To his children and immediate family we extend our warm wishes of condolences.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bahamaspress.com\/2017\/11\/19\/ronald-ronnie-butler-sr-m-b-e-passed-away-at-80-this-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the complete article at bahamaspress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cultural icon whose musical kaleidoscope of musical fusion lit the stage of entertainment stage in the Bahamas and around the world for more than 60 years has passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":205839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-headlines","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}